Sergeant York: His Own Life Story and War Diary

254 Pages·2018·7.54 MB·English

by  Alvin York

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Cover design by Michael Short
Print ISBN: 978-1-63158-282-0
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63158-283-7
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
PREFACE
I. THE YORK COUNTRY
II. THE HOUSE OF YORK
III. THE STORY OF THE STORY
IV. FIGHTERS
V. LONG HUNTERS
VI. FEUDISTS
VII. BUSHWHACKERS
VIII. MOONSHINERS
IX. SADDLEBAGGERS
X. GUNS
XI. SHOOTING MATCHES
XII. LARNIN’ FROM NATURE
XIII. HUNTING
XIV. BOYHOOD
XV. HOG-WILD
XVI. MOTHER
XVII. WAR
XVIII. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR
XIX. THE SWORD AND THE BIBLE
XX. SOLDIERING
XXI. OVER THERE
XXII. ST. MIHIEL
XXIII. THE ARGONNE
XXIV. THE ARGONNE FIGHT
XXV. OFFICIAL STORY OF FIGHT
XXVI. OFFICIAL STORY OF FIGHT (Continued)
XXVII. ABOVE THE BATTLE
XXVIII. THE ARMISTICE
XXIX. PARIS
XXX. HOME
XXXI. A HEAP O’ LARNIN’
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Sergeant Alvin C. York
Famous Tennessee Shooting Matches
A Typical Creek-Bed Road in the Mountains
Turkey Shooting
Hunting Companions
Spoils for the Victor
Preaching on the Mountainside
York Agricultural College
On the S. S. Ohioan
In a Peace-Time Setting
INTRODUCTION
Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, the third oldest of eleven children, was born
December 13, 1887 in a one-room log cabin near Pall Mall, Tennessee and
departed this life September 2, 1964, known as the greatest soldier of his time
and a believer in Christ as his Lord. The story of those seventy-six years, eight
months and twenty days is one of the most illustrious narratives of world history.
The Old Testament gives no battle account more charged with miraculous
victory than the event that occurred October 8, 1918 in the Argonne Forest of
France. Nevertheless, in the story of this tall mountaineer there is more to be
considered than that one miraculous battle about which so much has been
written. A careful look at this man, his family, his community and his faith is an
insight into the source of the strength of the American nation these nearly two
hundred years of her existence. We shall endeavor in this account to relate the
famous historical victory of the Argonne battle and likewise to acknowledge an
even greater victory accomplished in the heart of this unusual Christian patriot.
He fully believed that there is a purpose in everything and that “Mysterious are
the ways of the Lord, His wonders to perform.”